Idiom
run riot
Meaning
To act in an uncontrolled, unbridled manner.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The children ran riot in the garden all afternoon.”
“Without a teacher in the classroom, the students began to run riot and ignore all the rules.”
“As the security guards lost control of the crowd, the protestors began to run riot through the city streets, causing chaos in their wake.”
Examples
simple
“The children ran riot in the garden all afternoon.”
contextual
“Without a teacher in the classroom, the students began to run riot and ignore all the rules.”
complex
“As the security guards lost control of the crowd, the protestors began to run riot through the city streets, causing chaos in their wake.”
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